To celebrate the introduction of Google's new cloud storage service, Google Drive, they're simultaneously bumping free Gmail storage to 10GB. That's right, Gmail already had one-and-a-half as much free storage as Google Drive, and now it has twice as much!
However, if you also pay for Google Drive, that gets bumped again to 25GB.
Today, we're happy to announce that we're increasing everyone's free storage in Gmail from 7.5 GB to 10 GB (and counting) to celebrate today's launch of Google Drive. The increase will take effect over the next 24 hours. We hope you all enjoy the little bump!
The disparity between free Gmail and free Google Drive is a bit perplexing.So is Google encouraging us to inefficiently store most of our content in harder to access, impossible to collaborate in Gmail rather than Google Drive, which was purpose-built for sharing and searching? Have they simply not thought this through? Or is there some plan at work that will one day make one giant pool for all our Googlestuffs?
Who knows. It's free. It's embiggened. And that's all there is to it.
Now excuse me while I go mail bomb Phil Nickinson a couple million more 10MB blobs...
Source: Gmail blog
